Peter Nauert

Peter Nauert (born September 15, 1937 - March 18, 2018 ) was a goalkeeper in GDR football . In the Oberliga , the highest soccer class of the GDR soccer association , he played for the Leipzig clubs SC Lokomotive , Sportclub and 1. FC Lokomotive as well as for the Halle FC Chemie .

Soccer career

Nauert started his football career at the Leipzig company sports association Motor Gohlis Nord . With her he last played in the third class II. GDR league . At the age of 21, he moved to the league club SC Lok Leipzig in 1961 to replace the goalkeeper Horst Weigang who had moved to Erfurt . Nauert's first league season ran over 39 game days, as the game year was changed from the calendar year rhythm to the summer-spring rhythm. Nauert played 19 league point games and completed an international match with the B national team in September 1961. In the following season 1962/63 he displaced the previous goalkeeper Dieter Sommer with 19 out of 26 possible appearances .

Then the Leipzig football was reorganized and with the SC Leipzig (SCL) a new football focus was created for the trade fair city. In the SCL, the supposedly best players of the previous Leipzig upper division SC Lok and SC Rotation were concentrated, including goalkeeper Nauert. The first season of the SCL 1963/64 was disappointing, because the so-called "rest of Leipzig", the BSG Chemie turned out to be the better Leipzig team and surprisingly became GDR champions. Only third place remained for the SC. Nauert ended his first SCL season with 24 league appearances. Weigang returned to Leipzig for the 1964/65 season and now, in turn, ousted Nauert as number one in the SCL's goal, so that the SCL only made three league games.

In the summer of 1965, Nauert then moved to the league promoted SC Chemie Halle, which was converted to Halleschen FC Chemie (HFC) during the season. There he was used in the league team from the start and was a total of 17 times in the Halle goal by the end of the 1965/66 season. What had already become apparent at the end of the season continued in the 1966/67 season, Nauert again fell victim to a process of displacement. The new coach Horst Sockoll gave preference to the former goalkeeper Helmut Wilk . Nauert only had four league appearances.

After only 21 league games for the HFC in two years, Nauert returned to Leipzig and joined 1. FC Lokomotive, which was spun off from SC Leipzig in 1966, where his former competitor Weigang had moved to Erfurt again. His new opponent was now Ulrich Schulze , who was eight years younger than Nauert and was only able to replace him permanently in the second half of the 1966/67 season, ultimately making 14 league appearances at the end of the season. Schulze then went to 1. FC Magdeburg, but Nauert had to bow to his successor Werner Friese , who clearly outstripped him with 19 league appearances, Nauert only played nine times in the league in 1968/69. At the end of the season, 1. FC Lok had to relegate to the GDR league. There, too, Nauert had no chance against Friese and was only used in a point game.

Lok Leipzig achieved the immediate return to the league, but before the new league season 1970/71 Nauert ended his career as a professional footballer at the age of almost 31. In his nine senior league years he had 109 league stakes, 88 of which he completed for the Leipzig clubs. In later years Nauert worked as a trainer for 1. FC Lok. In the 1980/81 season he was assistant coach of the junior league team.

Peter "Pepi" Nauert died on March 18, 2018 after a long, serious illness.

literature

• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 334.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pp. 319, 330.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .

Web links

• Peter Nauert in the database of the German Football Association
• Peter Nauert deployment statistics at lok-leipzig-db.com